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George Bethune English

A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar

A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar

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“I arrived at the camp at Wady Haifa on the Second Cataract … where I found about four thousand troops, consisting of Turkish cavalry, infantry and artillery, and a considerable proportion of Bedouin cavalry and Mogrebin foot soldiers, besides about one hundred and twenty large boats loaded with provisions and ammunition.”

“I would here observe that what is called the Second Cataract is properly a succession of partial falls and swift rapids for more than a hundred miles before we arrived at Succoot.”

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A rare firsthand account of the 1820–1821 expedition from the Second Cataract through Dongola toward Sennar, written by the American artillery officer George Bethune English. His journal records Nile navigation, cataracts, camps, military logistics, settlements, ruins and encounters along a route that reshaped nineteenth-century Sudan.

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Historical context: This 1822 account reflects the terminology and assumptions of its period and includes descriptions of warfare, enslavement, ethnicity, religion and colonial expansion that modern readers may find objectionable. It is presented unabridged for historical and research value.

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Author: George Bethune English · First published: 1822

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